We have 23 campuses in the California State University system and I like to know what all of them are doing on their web sites. Sure, I could dig into the Way Back Machine, but I find that can give inconsistent results. Instead, I decided that I wanted to automate getting screenshots of […]
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Automating Website Screen Captures on OS X
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
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Grades Day, Or the Effect of a Simple Message in the Right Place
January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
Right before finals week last semester, the university registrar asked that a brief announcement be placed just above the link to PeopleSoft in the Portal. The announcement let students know that grades would post on January 8. It went up on December 18, the second day of finals.
The result on January 8 was the busiest […]
Tracking Dead Week and Finals
December 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
Just out of curiosity, I thought I would compare page-views during dead week and the first part of finals for the campus home page from Spring ‘07 and Fall ‘07. It’s interesting how closely the numbers compare to each other.
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Word of the Week: 12/9/2007
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Word of the Week is finals schedule
Finals Week! Winter Break is just around the corner…
Update
Here’s a nice little graph that tracks the popularity of query “finals schedule”
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Guest Blogging on Atlassian
December 5th, 2007 · No Comments
A few weeks ago, Pat and I wrote a guest blog titled Supply and Demand: A wiki adoption story at CSU Chico, for Atlassian about our experiences with the Confluence pilot project. Read Part 1 of the three part series at Atlassian Blog.
Update
Part 2 of our guest blog
Part 2 of our guest blog
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Headed to HighEdWebDev2007
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments
That’s right, it’s time to trek to Rochester, NY to learn and chat with other web nerds who work in the Ivory Towers of Academia™. Unfortunately I didn’t get my travel plans in order soon enough to submit any presentations. Now, I’m not one to let little details like that shut me up. […]
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HOWTO: Search Subfolders in Outlook 2007
August 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
I just about went bonkers when I found no easy way to search subfolders in Outlook 2007. First, the Advanced Find box was nowhere to be found (hint: Ctrl+Shift+F). Then, I discovered that my beloved “search all subfolders” checkbox was gone! Oh noes!
Google was no help a month ago when I discovered the problem. Today, […]
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